I claim the copyright to this
written tutorial. You are free to do whatever you please with the
graphic you make, but please do not take my tutorial. Do not send
the tutorial through email. Only share my link.

The purpose of this tutorial is
to learn how to make bubble card. It is written for beginner to immediate
level. Please feel free to
email
me if you have any questions.

To do this tutorial you will also
need Paint Shop Pro. I used Paint
Shop Pro 8.01, but you can use Paint Shop Pro 7 . You may download
a free trial at Jasc.

Remember to save as a psp file
often!

Before we begin, you might want
to study the PSP tool bars. I have labeled the tools on another page.
Click on the link and it will open a new page. You may want to keep
this page open while you work on the tutorial, to refer to the names now
and then.
PSP
Tools

You will also need

Picture of your choice

Download this
mask,
and save into your mask folder. The mask came with PSP 8.

1. Open the image that
you wish to use. Press Shift + D to duplicate the image. Close
the original. Minimize the duplicate for later use.

2. Click New File
in the top menu bar. Enter these settings: width=500, Height=400,
Resolution=72.000 pixels/inch, Backround color=transparent, image type=16.7
Million Colors (24 Bits). Click Ok. This is a large area, but
we will crop and resize when we are finished.

3. Flood-fill the image
with white. In the Layer Palette, rename this layer: White
Background.

4. Add a new layer.
In the top menu, click Layers > New raster layer. In the Layer Palette,
rename this layer: Mask Background.

5. Use the eye dropper tool
to pick a medium color from your picture to use as your main background
color. Flood-fill the Mask Background Layer with this color.
You can see that I chose an orange shade.

8. Make sure that the Mask layer (not the mask background) is
activated in the Layer Palette. Get the magic wand tool from the
tool menu and set the wand to 30 % tolerance. Click on the white
border part of the mask.

9. Now activate the white background layer. KEEP SELECTED!

10. Set your background color box to pattern and choose the picture
that you are using. Set the angle to 60 and the scale to 30 - 50
(depends on the size of your pic -- whichever you like best.)

11. Flood-fill the selected area on the bottom layer with the picture
pattern.

17. In the new image, apply the circle effect. In the top
menu, click Effects > Geometry Effects > Circle. Choose Transparent.

18. Your image is now a circular bubble. In the top menu,
click Edit > Copy. Then activate the frame you've already made.
In the top menu, click Edit > Paste > as new layer.

19. Return to your picture and with the square selection tool
select another square area. It does not have to be the same size.

20. With that selection Repeat Steps 16 -18, adding the new circle
as another layer to your frame.

21. Return to your picture and with the square selection tool
select a third square area. It does not have to be the same size.

22. With that selection Repeat Steps 16 -18, adding the new circle
as another layer to your frame.

23. Now you should have four layers, and they probably look like
a mess, like mine. *S* That's ok. We need to resize the
bubbles and place them.

24. For EACH bubble layer, you will resize them.
I started by resizing them 55%, but then had to resize each again.
You want each bubble to be a DIFFERENT size than the others-- a small,
medium and large! In top menu, click Image > Resize . Make sure percent
is selected and DO NOT check all layers at the bottom.

26. Then rearrange your layers, so that the smallest bubble is
on top, then the medium, then the large, then your frame is at the bottom.
With the mover tool, move each bubble into position where you want to place
them. Here is mine:

27. (Optional) Then I trimmed the top left corner and the
bottomr right corner with 2 tubes that matched my picture. Open each
tube. For EACH tube, click Edit > Copy. Then click on the frame
image. Click Edit > Paste > as new layer. Resize the tube (like
you did the bubbles in Step #24), and move the tube into the corner.
Repeat for the other tube.